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She was investigated for sedition, but charges were dropped.sedition = illegal acts encouraging resistance to government authority
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I learned precisely how seditious and cunning an enemy could be. (source)seditious = tending to engage in acts that resist government authority or attempt to overthrow a government
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Some felt these men were seditious conspirators, or worse, Communists; others, that there should be no free meals, because they themselves had to work for every mouthful.† (source)seditious = acts to tendency to engage in acts that resist government authority or attempt to overthrow a government
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Then I thought about the rebels, and how the king was usually quick to point out their sedition, but I was supposed to keep this news to myself.† (source)
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Together with the famous Mrs. Hutchinson, the Rev. Mr. Wheelwright was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for disturbing "the civil peace"; in truth, he did nothing more seditious than offer some heterodox opinions regarding the location of the Holy Ghost—but Massachusetts judged him harshly.† (source)
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Nothing since was as stimulating as the old days of letters, petitions, meetings, debates, recruitment, quarrels, rescue and downright sedition.† (source)
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I am, yes, speaking of sedition.† (source)
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It was like seditious and insidious too, and like socialist, suspicious, fascist and Communist.† (source)seditious = acts to tendency to engage in acts that resist government authority or attempt to overthrow a government
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5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.† (source)
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Thomas Hickey, you have been court-martialed and found guilty of the capital crimes of mutiny and sedition, of holding a treacherous correspondence with, and receiving pay from, the enemy for the most horrid and detestable purposes, and you have been sentenced to hang from the neck until dead.† (source)
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George Washington ...Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and 'Light Horse' Harry Lee ...were all Rebels....Our martyred Saviour was called seditious, and I may be pardoned if I rejoice that I am a Rebel.† (source)
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But the sermon over, he none the less tranquilly resumed his course of seditions and enormities.† (source)
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He said that Sam was too smart a boy to be fooled by sedition.† (source)
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He confessed to the assassination of eminent Party members, the distribution of seditious pamphlets, embezzlement of public funds, sale of military secrets, sabotage of every kind.† (source)
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Nor was it beyond reason to imagine that the time could come when America, of necessity, might have to resort to something of the kind—as "an asylum against discord, seditions, and civil war"—in order to preserve the laws and liberties of the people.† (source)
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Students here are like starving sharks when it comes to sedition.† (source)
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